Blue Department Store converted from the conventional retail method to the LIFO retail method on January 1, 2020, and is now considering converting to the dollar-value LIFO inventory method. During your examination of the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021, management requested that you furnish a summary showing certain computations of inventory cost for the past 3 years.

Here is the available information.

Compute the cost of inventory on hand at December 31, 2019, based on the conventional retail method. (Round ratios for computational purposes to 0 decimal places, e.g. 78% and final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 28,987)

Compute the inventory to be reported on December 31, 2019, in accordance with procedures necessary to convert from the conventional retail method to the LIFO retail method beginning January 1, 2020. Assume that the retail value of the December 31, 2019, inventory was $60,900. (Round ratios for computational purposes to 2 decimal places, e.g. 78.72% and final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 28,987.)

Without prejudice to your solution to part (b), assume that you computed the December 31, 2019, inventory (retail value $60,900) under the LIFO retail method at a cost of $36,845. Compute the cost of the store’s 2020 and 2021 year-end inventories under the dollar-value LIFO method. (Round ratios for computational purposes to 2 decimal places, e.g. 78.72% and final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 28,987.)

Early in 2020, Dobbs Corporation engaged Kiner, Inc. to design and construct a complete modernization of Dobbs's manufacturing facility. Construction was begun on June 1, 2020 and was completed on December 31, 2020. Dobbs made the following payments to Kiner, Inc. during 2020:

In order to help finance the construction, Dobbs issued the following during 2020:

In addition to the 9% bonds payable, the only debt outstanding during 2020 was a $518,500, 12% note payable dated January 1, 2016 and due January 1, 2023, with interest payable annually on January 1.

Compute the amounts of each of the following:

Assume that an individual wins a lottery. Assume also that the individual was working before the lottery win and had no other nonlabor income before the lottery win.

a) Using the basic static model of individual labour supply, discuss both graphically and explain in your own words how the lottery win will affect the individual’s level of hours worked. Discuss all relevant effects.

b) Is it possible that the individual decides to stop working following the lottery win? In your answer discuss the concept of reservation wages and add the individual’s reservation wage before and after the lottery win to your graph.

Assume that an individual wins a lottery. Assume also that the individual was working before the lottery win and had no other nonlabor income before the lottery win.

a) Using the basic static model of individual labour supply, discuss both graphically and explain in your own words how the lottery win will affect the individual’s level of hours worked. Discuss all relevant effects.

b) Is it possible that the individual decides to stop working following the lottery win? In your answer discuss the concept of reservation wages and add the individual’s reservation wage before and after the lottery win to your graph.

Assume that an individual wins a lottery. Assume also that the individual was working before the lottery win and had no other nonlabor income before the lottery win.

a) Using the basic static model of individual labour supply, discuss both graphically and explain in your own words how the lottery win will affect the individual’s level of hours worked. Discuss all relevant effects.

b) Is it possible that the individual decides to stop working following the lottery win? In your answer discuss the concept of reservation wages and add the individual’s reservation wage before and after the lottery win to your graph.

Telstar Communications is going to purchase an asset for $420,000 that will produce $200,000 per year for the next four years in earnings before depreciation and taxes. The asset will be depreciated using the three-year MACRS depreciation schedule in Table 12–12. (This represents four years of depreciation based on the half-year convention.) The firm is in a 30 percent tax bracket. Fill in the schedule below for the next four years.

Earnings before depreciation and taxes year 1 year 2 year 3 year 4

depreciation

earnings before taxes

taxes

earnings after taxes

depreciation

cash flow

Telstar Communications is going to purchase an asset for $760,000 that will produce $370,000 per year for the next four years in earnings before depreciation and taxes. The asset will be depreciated using the three-year MACRS depreciation schedule in Table 12–12. (This represents four years of depreciation based on the half-year convention.) The firm is in a 30 percent tax bracket.

Fill in the schedule below for the next four years.

You are trying to establish the IgG response from a recently vaccinated individual, where it will be important to know how much IgG they have both before and after the vaccination. You start with two samples of 8 mL of blood, one from before vaccination and one after. You use an affinity chromatography technique to remove just the IgG (ε = 1.35 g^-1L cm^-1). You end with a 2 mL sample of each. The pre-vaccinated sample has an A₂₈₀ reading of 0.85, and the post-vaccinated sample with a 10-fold dilution has an A₂₈₀ reading of 0.202 (both with a 1 cm path length).

A) How many micrograms of IgG were in each of the original blood samples?

B) What fold change in IgG amounts was seen after vaccination? (this question is asking how much ending IgG was there as compared to how much starting IgG)

You are interested in assessing the overall effect of the using Corexit as a cleanup method on the intertidal sessile flora and fauna community separately using data collected from an experiment conducted after the Exxon Valdez oil spill (Table 2). Provide an appropriate graph to describe the data, include a figure caption and include a summary paragraph describing the figure provided. (Follow the CSE guideline format)

Table 2 Change in the % cover of dominant algae and sessile invertebrates on heavily oiled cobble beaches in Prince William Sound before and after tests of the effect of Corexit on the benthic intertidal community. Data modified from Peterson (2001).